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Use this room when you already know the kind of cultural terrain you want to inspect. For guided orientation, open the Field Map or begin with a pathway.

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Now showing — Between the World and Me · 5 works

  • The Bridge Television · 2010s

    A body found on the Øresund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark. Nordic noir par excellence.

    After-hoursPowerSurveillance
  • 3:10 to Yuma Film · 2000s

    A struggling rancher escorts a captured outlaw to the prison train. Mangold's taut Western remake built on the tension between two men.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • 101 Reykjavík Film · 2000s

    A slacker in Reykjavík drifts between his mother's couch and the city's bars until a Spanish woman rearranges everything. Kormákur's breakout Icelandic comedy.

    After-hoursUrban isolationLonging
  • The Color Purple Books · 1980s

    Letters between two sisters in the rural South. Survival, sisterhood, and spiritual liberation.

    FolkloreRitualPower
  • Written on the Body Books · 1990s

    The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.

    LongingMemoryMigration
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  • Melodrama Music
  • Exile in Guyville Music
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Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.

  • Sister Outsider Essays
  • Between the World and Me Essays
Cultural geography
Regional constellations
  • 101 Reykjavík Film
  • 3:10 to Yuma Film